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Top 10 Solr Best Practices for Taking Solr To Production

10 Best Practices for Taking Solr to Production

Moving your Apache Solr infrastructure from development to production is a critical step, whether you’re using Sitecore, AEM, Drupal, or your own custom application. It is quite straightforward to install Solr on your local machine and load a collection; however, when you start getting ready for production, you discover how daunting the task actually is.

Our top 10 Solr best practices for taking Solr from development to production include the following topics:

  1.  Implement Zookeeper
  2. Achieve High Availability
  3. Follow Security Protocols with TLS
  4. Maintain Access Restrictions
  5. Distribute Queries with a Load Balancer
  6. Determine What to Log
  7. Monitor the Health of Your Solr Deployment
  8. Create a Backup Strategy
  9. Determine When to Expand Storage
  10. Keep up with Vulnerability Patches

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About the Author

By Karan Jeet Singh

Solutions Engineer

December 15, 2022

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